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Platform - peatland

Barnaboy (Phillipstown Lower By.), County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Platform - peatland, Barnaboy, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Barnaboy (Phillipstown Lower By.)
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.31341, -7.36635
SMR number
OF010-499----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Daingean South Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a small brushwood platform partially exposed on the field surface near the drain edge. The elements (Diam. 0.01-0.04m, max. L0.8m) were tightly packed, and were laid two to three layers deep. The majority were orientated NE-SW, with some elements overlying them orientated NW-SE. The site was situated in poor to moderately humified peat with frequent Eriophorum inclusions (Whitaker 2014).

The find spot was relocated in 2014 (licence 14E0310), using GPS, but no wood remained in situ (Whitaker 2017).

A fragment of ash was chosen for AMS dating and returned a date of cal. AD 1283-1393 (UBA 26601).

Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer

Date of upload: 26 February 2020

References

Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Daingean South, Co. Offaly (14E0300-14E0311). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Whitaker, J. 2014 Re‐assessment Peatland Survey 2013, Blackwater, Boora, Derrydreenagh, Mountdillon Group of Bogs, County Offaly, Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon. Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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